From The Library of Congress.
The image is estimated to have been taken between 1908-1919 in the New York City. A home economics class is taking place in the kitchen of a housekeeping flat.
Also from The Library of Congress.
It was the consensus of opinion of these women that the proposed plan covered the material or mechanical side of home life. On the other hand they considered it important that the less tangibic side should be emphasized. The most fundamental problems the thinking home women today involve decisions of what to do. Many agencies are telling her how to do the various household tasks, but it is equally important to give her motives for doing them and to attach to the various duties such clear-cut standards of value in relation to all the aspects and contributions of home life that she will be helped in knowing what to do and what may be left undone. Such careful weighing of values is needed by the housewife in organizing her working time, in apportioning the material resourees of the family, and in all the choices she constantly makes that bear on the material and social well-being of her family.
Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Home Economics- June 30th, 1924
Home Economics 